Print Culture Colloquium
Bunyan's Progress: Out of the Northwoods and Into the Mainstream
Event Details
Date
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Time
12 p.m.
Location
SLIS Commons, 4207 , Helen C. White Hall
Description
Michael will recount the saga of lies, hoaxes, thefts and greed that established Paul Bunyan as America's best-known folk hero. Along the way, he'll discuss how printing and publication forever changed the oral tales born in the forest and share some of the earliest authentic Bunyan tales told by Wisconsin lumberjacks in the 1880s and 1890s.
Cost
Free
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